AnTuTu’s April Android benchmark rankings look stubbornly familiar: iQOO is still setting the pace at the top, MediaTek owns much of the mid-range, and tablets are now flirting with flagship-phone scores. The real story is not a shake-up, but how little the rankings budged even as vendors keep pushing harder on RAM, storage, and thermal tuning.
At the sharp end, the iQOO 15 Ultra takes first place with 4,126,940 points, narrowly ahead of the iQOO 15 at 4,102,621. The Red Magic 11 Pro+ follows with 4,098,742. All three lean on Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, and the top iQOO pair ship with 16GB RAM and 1TB storage. That combination is clearly doing the heavy lifting: AnTuTu is rewarding devices that are aggressively tuned for sustained performance, not just peak specs on a slide.
Snapdragon keeps the flagship table crowded
The broader flagship picture is even more lopsided. Nine of the top ten Android phones in April use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, with the OnePlus Ace 6 Ultra as the lone outlier thanks to MediaTek’s Dimensity 9500. It lands sixth, which is respectable, but also a reminder that Qualcomm still has the easiest path to benchmark bragging rights.
That dominance also makes March’s ranking look more like a shuffle than a reset. The iQOO 15 Ultra was already first last month, where it scored 4,174,911, and devices such as the Red Magic 11 Pro+ and iQOO 15 were already near the top. Benchmark charts often exaggerate drama; this one mostly confirms which brands have the fastest tuning teams and the most forgiving cooling budgets.
MediaTek has a firmer grip below flagship level
The sub-flagship class tells a different story. The iQOO Z11 leads with 2,323,047 points on the Dimensity 8500, followed by the Honor Power2 and Oppo K15 Pro, both also powered by Dimensity chips. If the flagship race is Qualcomm’s party, this tier looks much more like MediaTek’s neighborhood.
- Top sub-flagship phone: iQOO Z11 – 2,323,047
- Chipset: Dimensity 8500
- Runner-up and third place: Honor Power2 and Oppo K15 Pro
Tablet benchmark rankings are catching flagship phones
The tablet chart is the most interesting one because it shows how close large-screen Android devices are getting to flagship phones in raw speed. Vivo’s Pad 6 Pro leads with 4,095,813 points, ahead of the Legion Tablet Y700 5th Generation and the Oppo Pad 5 Pro. All three use the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which helps explain why the numbers are now living in the same universe as the fastest handsets.
Lenovo previously held first place in the tablet category, so Vivo’s move to the top is a real change, even if the performance spread remains tight. That hints at a familiar pattern: once a platform gets enough headroom, small gains in tuning and thermals can be enough to swap positions without changing the underlying pecking order.
For April, then, the headline is less ”new champion” and more ”same winners, slightly different order.” The open question is whether MediaTek can push deeper into the flagship tier next month, or whether Qualcomm keeps turning benchmark charts into a private club with better cooling.